Penelope Mary Mordaunt FRSA is a British famous politician who has been serving as Minister of State for Trade Policy since 2021. A member of the Conservative Party.
Mordaunt is a supporter of homeopathy, having signed an early-day motion in support of its continued funding in the National Health Service. Mordaunt acted as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Decentralisation from 2014 to 2015. Before being appointed Minister of State for the Armed Forces in 2015, the first woman to hold the post.
When receiving the Speech of the Year award at The Spectator magazine’s Parliamentarian of the Year Awards in November 2014, Mordaunt said that she had delivered a speech in the House of Commons just before the Easter recess in 2013 on poultry welfare so as to use the word cock, as a forfeit for a misdemeanor during Naval Reserve training. She used the word cock six times and lay or laid five times. Following her comments, she was accused by Labour MP Kate Hoey of trivializing parliament.
What is Penny Mordaunt stance on trans rights?
Penny Mordaunt was accused of throwing trans people under the bus after hitting back at critics. MP explained what she believes makes someone biologically a woman in the Twitter thread, but now faces criticism from all sides.
